There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I am a Black woman raised by parents who were active in the civil-rights movement. — Maya Wiley Copy Share Image
The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation. — Fredric Wertham Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Well, it's the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Ever since the civil rights movement, the black church has always encouraged people to utilize their voting right, which is a right… — Otis Moss III Copy Share Image
Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what… — Henry Hampton Copy Share Image
The Underground Railroad, which was the first integrated civil rights movement, is a part of our history that not a lot of… — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
For many years as a foreign correspondent, I not only worked alongside human rights advocates, but considered myself one of them. To… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Detroit was an exaggeration of what was going on across the country. You could see the divisions, even within the Civil Rights… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
“As historian Gerald McKnight observes, “King was proposing nothing less than a radical transformation of the Civil Rights Movement into a populist… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
In Cairo, these young men hanging around in the street, we're told these guys are lazy, they're uneducated, they don't care, they… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Maybe, just maybe, there should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
I was involved in the civil rights movement way back in the late '50s and through the '60s and '70s. I was… — George Takei Copy Share Image
another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think Dario Ringach is a poster boy for the concept that the use of force or the threat of force is… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Get involved in your neighborhood. That's how I got really, really committed to the immigrant rights movement. — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings. — John Lewis Copy Share Image
One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible. — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the Civil Rights Movement is that you do have… — Charlayne Hunter-Gault Copy Share Image
It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My father wanted me to be a dentist like him, or any doctor, really. There was this attitude of, 'The civil rights… — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
LISTEN: If you ever wondered what you would do if you were alive in the Civil Rights Movement, NOW IS THE TIME… — Shaun King Copy Share Image
I love how music and chants were used in the Civil Rights movement to help people keep marching. How songs were both… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
We need to fight for a new human rights movement that recognizes and values black life. — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement. — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
Newsman are the ones who - without them we don't have a civil rights movement, we don't have a women's movement, we… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else. — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
